Scott Mitchell
Scott Mitchell's blog about writing.
Scott On Writing | 22 Nov 2011 01:11
Scott Mitchell writes "....One of ASP.NET MVC’s most useful features is its powerful templating system. Templates were introduced with ASP.NET MVC 2 as a way to have the view render either a display- or editing-related user interface for the entire model or for a property of..."
Read more » Using Templates to Display Boolean Values as Yes/No Options
Scott On Writing | 30 Sep 2011 16:16
Scott Mitchell writes "....While I like to consider myself a web developer, every now and then I have to put on my DBA hat to address some SQL related issue. This little script has saved my butt more than once. It searches the text of triggers, UDFs, stored procedures and..."
Read more » Searching SQL Server Stored Procedure and Trigger Text
Scott On Writing | 15 Sep 2011 18:19
Scott Mitchell writes "....On Saturday September 24th I’ll be doing two four-hour ASP.NET MVC 3 and Razor training events in San Diego: Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 3 and Razor – (8 AM to Noon) - This four hour morning class introduces ASP.NET MVC 3 and the new Razor..."
Read more » ASP.NET Training in San Diego on Saturday, September 24th
Scott On Writing | 18 Aug 2011 04:28
Scott Mitchell writes "....In conjunction with the Los Angeles .NET Developer's Group I will be presenting a full day, hands-on lab/presentation/training event on ASP.NET MVC 3 Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices on Saturday, August 27th. The event is a 8 hour training with..."
Read more » Full Day ASP.NET MVC 3 Training Event in Los Angeles on August 27th, 2011
Scott On Writing | 24 Jun 2011 23:21
Scott Mitchell writes "....By default, a user can enter any character into a textbox. Masked textboxes help reduce user input error by limiting what characters a user can type into a textbox. Masked textboxes have been a standard user input element in desktop applications for..."
Read more » Creating a Currency Masked TextBox with On-the-Fly Currency Formatting
Scott On Writing | 20 Jun 2011 19:52
Scott Mitchell writes "....About month ago at a user group meeting the guy sitting across from me shared the tale of a talk he had attended. The speaker’s laptop had downloaded a slew of Windows Updates in the background, after which the “Restart your computer to finish..."
Read more » A Synchronized Visual Studio Crash
Scott On Writing | 07 Jun 2011 23:10
Scott Mitchell writes "....My latest article on DotNetSlackers looks at how to create Excel spreadsheets using NPOI. NPOI is a free, open-source .NET library for creating and reading Excel spreadsheets and is a port of the Java POI library. In the article I show how to use..."
Read more » Export an ADO.NET DataTable to Excel using NPOI
Scott On Writing | 12 May 2011 16:57
Scott Mitchell writes "....In conjunction with the Los Angeles .NET Developer's Group I will be presenting a full day, hands-on lab and training event on ASP.NET MVC 3 on Saturday, May 21st. The event is a 8 hour training with breakfast and lunch served. Attendees are asked..."
Read more » Full Day ASP.NET MVC 3 Training Event in Los Angeles on May 21st, 2011
Scott On Writing | 18 Apr 2011 17:46
Scott Mitchell writes "....Like many ASP.NET developers, I am most comfortable working with C# and VB. I know just enough HTML and CSS to be dangerous. I know enough to implement the overarching page layout without using <table>s and instead to use CSS to position,..."
Read more » Terse Markup and CSS for Aligned Form Labels and Inputs
Scott On Writing | 29 Mar 2011 19:32
Scott Mitchell writes "....Warning! This blog post is long and rife with navel-gazing. In 1998 I started an ASP resource site, 4GuysFromRolla.com. Toward the tail end of the dotcom boom I sold 4Guys to Internet.com, but continued working as the editor and primary contributor..."
Read more » I’ve Written My Last Article for 4GuysFromRolla